You have to spend a lot of money to get to the places where the heroin is cheap…

Lots of non-vegans make the assumption that vegans are looking down on them as morally inferior and don’t like it.

The best you can do for them is to tell them that it isn’t about them; it’s your choice for yourself.

Of course you might actually see them as morally inferior, in which case you can just say “Hey I am vegan and while I do see you as morally inferior, it wasn’t me who brought up the subject.”

If it wasn’t for the fact that in the UK internet connections are logged I probably wouldn’t bother with a VPN.

It really annoys me that a government choice is forcing me to be wasteful.

Overdose on heroin in a country that didn’t really have any emergency services.

Of course you should - make friends with whoever you like! I’ve made friends with colleagues and am still friends with them years after I left.

The only reason I can think of not to is if you or they are loads of drama and you don’t want to bothered by it at work.

People are people wherever you meet them.

You could sync your podcasts to your phone using Syncthing.

If someone is spending their time chatting to AI about politics then I think they’ve got it coming to them.

100% agree. These things get talked up as benefits when they are mostly treated as revenue streams by the seller and distractions by the buyer. Kids and adults. We all need to be way more critical of the tech we use.

So what? There will be a “Yes I’m over 16” check box which will be as meaningful as the “Yes I’m over 18” one on porn sites?

Any hope of governments or social media sites enforcing this will come with big ethical and technical compromises and I dont think anyone is actually going to really bother.

We already have limits on what children do with other potentially harmful things like fire, sharp objects, heights and roads and they all come from parents. If this law has any real and positive impact it will be the message that it sends to parents.

While this might be an improvement over chucking cables onto a bonfire but i think it’s unnecessarily high tech. If the cables already need to be cut laterally into specific sections to conform to the wavelength and it uses 200w, then a better design would be to pull the cable over a blade to part the sheath like a hot dog bun. You could do that with a fraction of the power, no emissions from the pyrolysis and simpler more available tools; just some dies/jigs, blades and a motor. It could even be hand cranked. This isn’t something that would get research funding though. And I bet there is already a tinkerer doing it somewhere in a shack in Ghana or Pakistan.

If it’s done and dusted because they already have your data then why are they constantly trying to get more?

Is this an ad?

I’m always surprised at how devious this windows spyware is. 99% of people would probably just accept to share all their data but that’s not good enough; MS has to try and squeeze out every last drop.

How is this proliferating csam?

Sharing it with people and companies that it wasn’t being shared with before.

Also, how do you expect them to find csam without having known images?

The same way it is now: people reporting it and undercover police accounts. People recognise it.

without having someone look at every picture on someone’s harddrive

If it’s going to get used as evidence in court a human will have to review and confirm it. I don’t think “Because the AI said so” is going to convince juries.

The only reason to be against this is if you are looking at CP

Or if it’s you or someone you love who is in the CP. Having further copies of it on further hard drives, whether it’s so someone can bake it into their AI tool or any other purpose is wrong. That’s just my view though.

I agree that the internet might not be the best place to share your fears. At the same time though Russia is a country at war and doesn’t seem to be very friendly to foreigners at the moment. I’m not sure if that suggests a deeper issue than a caring parent being understandably worried about their daughter.

Does she know how worried you are? If not, try to explain in a way that let’s her feel compassion towards you and not feel blamed/attacked/claustrophobic. At least then she might regularly let you know that she’s still safe. Do you or her know anyone else in Russia who can be there for her if she needs any help?

I think all CSAM should be destroyed out of respect for the victims, not proliferated. I don’t care who is hanging onto this material or for what purpose.

I’m sure big polluters will be citing this paper for decades to come.

“It will OK in the end bro.”

Not much Greek but I can make a good guess at Latin words having learnt quite a bit of French.

I don’t think it’s very likely. Even if it was even remotely affordable or feasible he actually needs opposition to define himself and his base ‘ruggedly independent’ and as ‘freedom fighters’.

If he’s going to go after anyone at all I think it will be high profile people for maximum media impact.